Design a Scalable News Feed

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This question evaluates a candidate's competency in large-scale system design, specifically architecture, data modeling, API design, feed delivery strategies, caching and pagination, ranking versus chronological ordering, and consistency and reliability concerns for low-latency social news feeds.

Design a Scalable News Feed

Company: Rippling

Role: Software Engineer

Category: System Design

Difficulty: medium

Interview Round: Onsite

Overview: This question evaluates a candidate's competency in large-scale system design, specifically architecture, data modeling, API design, feed delivery strategies, caching and pagination, ranking versus chronological ordering, and consistency and reliability concerns for low-latency social news feeds.

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Mar 12, 2026
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